A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

A strange glow at the heart of our galaxy might be the long-awaited sign of dark matter, the invisible force believed to ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

Scientists may be coming closer to confirming the existence of dark matter - the invisible stuff thought to make up more than ...

On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

A spacecraft that’s exploring the dark universe has released its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Named Euclid after the ancient Greek “father of geometry,” the satellite was developed by the ...

After a century of observations spanning the breadth of the cosmos and theoretical insights that push humanity's vision of ...

A group of scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to do cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of the universe by observing as much of it as possible. But these ...

Using the ALMA telescope in Chile and Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists observed a young galaxy in the early universe that is invisible in nearly every wavelength. When you purchase through ...

A strangely sedate galaxy in the early universe may upend our ideas about how galaxies form. We think most young galaxies in the early cosmos ought to be chaotic and turbulent, but galaxy SPT-SJ041839 ...

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